The confessions of Samuel Pepys : private revelations from Britain's most famed diarist / Guy de la Bédoyère.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De la Bédoyère, Guy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.

Pepys, Samuel.

Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703--Diaries.

Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703--Relations with women.

Diaries.

diaries.

Genre:

diaries.

Diaries.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Pegasus Books cloth edition.

Other Title:

Private revelations from Britain's most famed diarist

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2026.

Summary:

"[Samuel] Pepys's candid revelations as he forged his career as a civilian naval official in Restoration London have fascinated readers ever since the first selection was published in 1825. This book focuses on Pepys's controversial private life and is geared for a contemporary readership by charting his varied and complex relationships with women"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Music and women I cannot but give way to

1660: Nulla Puella Negat

1661: I did please myself by strength of fancy

1662: I glutted myself with looking on her

1663: So deadly full of jealousy

1664: I did arrive at what I would, with great pleasure

1665: In the end I had my will of her

1666: She would now have done anything

1667: My mind running on this pretty girl

1668: Very great sorrow with my wife by my folly

1669: Now my amours to Deb are past

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-358) and index.

Contains:

Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9798897100743

OCLC:

1523199604